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PHOENIX — Former Democratic state Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has been elected to represent a new Phoenix-area congressional district, emerging victorious after a bitterly fought race that featured millions of dollars in attack ads.

Sinema becomes the first openly bisexual member of Congress. Her victory came in a year when three states approved gay marriage, and at least five openly gay Democrats were elected to House seats. A Wisconsin congresswoman also became the first openly gay person elected to the Senate.

Sinema had a narrow lead on election night that made the race too close to call. But she slowly improved that advantage as more ballots were tallied in recent days, and now has a nearly 6,000-vote edge that is too much for Republican Vernon Parker to overcome.

We have our first openly-gay member of the Senate, our firstly openly-bisexual member of congress, a record number of women in the House, and a record number of women in the Senate.

And this is owed, in part, to Arizona of all places. And this is no small feat considering that Sinema's Republican challenger, Vernon Parker, received endorsements from many high profile Republican figures and held fundraisers with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Oversight Chairman Darrell "Witch Hunt" Issa.

In that regard, you may even consider this a rebuke of their policies.

It should be mentioned that Arizona is still counting hundreds of thousands of ballots.

Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s said Saturday that approximately 486,405 ballots still have to be counted across the state, representing more than a quarter of the 1.8 million votes cast. About 322,000 of those uncounted ballots came from Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and many of its suburbs. The statewide total included 307,620 early ballots and 178,785 provisional ballots.

And we give Florida a lot of shit around here for their election shenanigans.

I think this goes to the fact that when Republicans control elections bad shit happens. I was in Florida in 2008 and there were minimal problems compared to now and 2000. Guess they were right. Crist was a RINO.

rob black

What would really be great is, after all the votes are counted, the despicable Sheriff Joe got kicked to the curb.
He should then be stuffed in to the nearest prison for the many crimes he has committed as the countries most prominent state sanctioned gangster.
Arizona better start purging themselves of all the Neanderthals they have elected, or the only remaining population will be a mass of rich old white people, who will starve to death because there will be no workers there to take care of them anymore.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Rob-Fairman/1507058515 Rob Fairman

Is it sad that googled her before I made through the first sentence?

Draxiar

Won’t it be nice when (if?) gender, sexual orientation, and race are no longer remarkable factors in elections?

I’m very glad that openly gay and bisexual people are getting elected…I really am. That said, what gender they prefer to sleep with is no one’s fucking business (heh…see that there?). It’s a damn shame this sort of thing is actually a big deal. If I went for an interview and someone asked me if I preferred men or women I’d end the interview right there. Why? Because it shouldn’t matter.

I know I’m preaching to the choir on this. I just find it frustrating FOR the people that have to endure this type of invasive probing.

zirgar

And seriously, pardon me for saying this, but she’s openly hot, too.

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